Procedure for declaration of civil death by court

1. Declaration has to be filed in the local civil court/ADJ. Law involved is S.108 Indian Evidence Act. 

2. It is not compulsory - but this declaration would be presumption of death, and hence all natural consequences that flow on the death of a person (Suceession etc would follow) 

I agree with the view of  learned Bharat Chugh. I dont think any one will give you a death certificate except the facts of missing, as it will be  a paradoxical certficate: with living man as dead, dead man returning to life and the same man considered as alive  for one purpose and dead for another purpose the realm of legal fictions acquires a touch of supernatural under the paradoxical doctrine of civil death.